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Usman Pirzada

Head of Business Development

PC Hardware and Technology Enthusiast,
Blood of Silicon (1 nm),

Joined July 2013 1928 articles

Recent Posts

The Low-down On Bizarre AMD Security Exploit Saga – You Will Want To Read This

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The Crypto Conundrum – Blockchain Demystified

NVIDIA’s GeForce Partner Program Allegedly Engages In Anti-Consumer Practices

AMD Desktop Platform Roadmap 2018-2020 Leaked – 7nm Threadripper Named Castle Peak and New ‘Inflection & Optimization” Schema

RUMOR: NVIDIA’s GTX 2080 Flagship Graphics Cards Will Be Priced Significantly Upwards Of $699 MSRP, Up To $1500

AMD Shows Off EPYC 3000 Series Embedded Processors And Ryzen V10000 APUs – 2.7x Performance Per Dollar As Compared To Intel Xeon-D

Intel XMM 8060 Is the First Commercial 5G Modem That Could Power Your Future iPhone

Intel Announces 5G Roll-Out To Mobile Devices – Windows PCs With 5G Modems Landing in 2H 2019

Intel’s dGPU Development Prototype Unveiled At ISSCC – Proof of Concept ‘Test Chip’ Aimed At Showcasing New Features, 64mm2 Chip Based On 14nm Gen9 uArch

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NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1060 3GBs Rendered Less Than Optimal For Ethereum Mining After Windows Update

NVIDIA’s Next Generation ‘Turing’ GPU Launching Next Month According To Reuters

NVIDIA Blows Away Q4 FY18 Earnings – Record Breaking EPS of $1.78 On Revenue of $2.91 Billion, Earnings Analyzed

RUMOR: NVIDIA Ampere GA104 GPU Powering ‘GeForce GTX 2080’ and ‘GeForce GTX 2070’ Launching In April, Mass Production Has Begun And GP102 is EOL

Intel Launches New Xeon-D 2100 Series Lineup – Up To 18 AVX-512-Capable Cores Based On 14nm Skylake uArch Housed In An SoC

AMD Working On A Brand New Major GPU Architecture To Succeed GCN by 2020-2021

Ubisoft’s Anno 2205 Does Not Support Intel’s 18-Core ‘Core i9-7980XE’ Flagship Processor

AMD’s 7nm ‘Matisse’ and ‘Starship’ Processors Based On Zen 2 Microarchitecture Spotted In HWINFO Changelog

AMD Q4 2017 Earnings Analysis: Profitable Fiscal Year Ends With Cautious Optimism As Fundamentals Start To Take Flight

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Intel’s Massive Core i9-7980XE 18-Core Reviewed With ASUS’ ROG STRIX X299-XE GAMING Motherboard

Intel Beats On Triumphant Q4 2017 Earnings With Record $17.1 Billion In Revenue and $1.08 EPS – Tax Act Impact and Spectre/Meltdown Woes Paint The Background

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EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 GAMING Review: The Best Dual Slot 1080 Ti Flavor Around

AMD Gets Hit With Two Class Action Lawsuits For Spectre Vulnerabilities, Intel Hit With Four For Meltdown & Spectre

High End Graphics Cards Reach Insane Price Levels: NVIDIA’s GTX 1080 Ti Going For $1599 and AMD’s Vega 64 For $2099

NVIDIA Preparing GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Max-Q Design To Tackle RX Vega M GL, Up To 2.18 TFLOPs Of Performance

Samsung Unleashes Fastest Ever HBM2 ‘Aquabolt’ Capable Of Achieving 2.4 Gbps On 1.2v, Increasing Performance Per Watt By 50%

Intel Blazes New Trails For Quantum Computing With ‘Tangle Lake’: The First 49-Qubit Processor Prototype

Intel Announces ‘Loihi’ A Revolutionary Neuromorphic ‘Self-Learning’ Chip Which Can Simulate 130 Million Synapses

NVIDIA Announces The Monstrous BFGD TV Display: 65 inch, 4K HDR, 120 Hz G-SYNC and SHIELD Capabilities Built In

AMD Radeon Graphics Roadmap Update: 7nm Vega in 2018, Navi in 2019, Followed By “Next-Gen”, New Vega Instinct Announced

AMD Announces New Vega High Performance Discrete GPU For Mobility With HBM2 Memory

Intel Releases Patch For Spectre and Meltdown – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Measure No Significant Performance Degradation For Vast Majority Of Use-Cases

Intel Hardware Level Speculative Execution To Blame For Kernel Bug – KPTI Workaround Introduces Performance Hits Up To 23% On Average

NVIDIA Prohibits Use Of GeForce GPUs In Datacenters, Only Blockchain Processing Allowed

PC Hardware Year In Review: 2017 Edition

Christmas Deal: Acer VX5 58AX Gaming Laptop With GTX 1050, FHD Screen & Backlit Keyboard For $800